... good lor one. Mr. Jeffs records that if a sherry shipper dies aged less than 70, his colleagues regard it as a case ol infant mortality. He reminds us of what I had forgotten, that Shakespeare put into the mouth ol Sir John Falstaff a magnificent tribute ...

... per annum. Birth rates and death rates, as far as they are known, are high. Infant mortality rates, too, are high but may be falling. The evidence suggests that infant mortality rates may be lower for the children of Creole women than for the children of ...

... buying her as a slave for the equivalent of little more than a shilling Thanks to dirty, untrained midwives, mother-and- infant mortality was high. Women who died within a month of childbirth were said to go to the Bloody Lake, one of the Buddhist ten hells ...

... progress. Yet, within five years of Japanese evacuation, the effective control of malaria, a drop of forfy-five per cent in infant mortality and of forty-three per cent in the in cidence of tuberculosis have re duced the death rate of the 600,000 or so population ...

... and welfare legislation and services, our expectation of life (one of the highest in the world), with one of the lowest infant mortality rates, and our high standard of living. The prowess of our fighting men, both European and Maori, in two world wars is ...

... eradication of malaria and other tropical diseases, a steady increase of births, and a relative decline of the death and infant mortality rate have brought about a formidable annual increase in the population. While at the turn of the century births and deaths ...

... orator and nothing more. When she was President of the Liverpool Child Welfare Committee, she was instrumental in reducing infant mortality to its lowest level ever. Her husband has tried unsuccessfully to get into Parliament several times, but still remains ...

... BY ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON Modern glass at throwaway prices has a high mortality rate mainly because it isn't full crystal and so is more brittle. The glass that tends to last a lifetime is the heavy cut crystal goblet whose sheer weight and solid good looks ...

... contact with his patient was limited to an early consultation to confirm pregnancy and the last stages of labour. The mortality rate of infants and mothers looks tragic by comparison with those of to-day, yet many women survived the ordeal, though the after-effects ...

... quivering chime of Big Ben dies away at midnight on New Year's Eve, and wishing each other a happy New Year. Since the infant 1951, like all infants, will be the child of its parents and the descendant of its ancestors, there is no reason at all to believe that ...

... epitomised the simplicity of childhood and boy hood. But every infant-in-arms, fumbling with its first toys with its tiny, clumsy fingers, always reminds me of Grock. Indeed, I call all infants-in-arms Grock. Chaplin was an older child. Chesterton, in a ...

... of pleasure-for-all, which had characterised the inaugural occasion. It is dangerous to prophesy about the future of an infant so young, but all the indications are that the Fair will flourish for a great number of years to come. the Country Landowners ...